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This bill would stop the federal government from moving forward with a land protection plan for the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in West Texas. In simple terms, it blocks the Secretary of the Interior from finalizing or carrying out the plan that was issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in February 2023. The bill is aimed at preventing that land protection plan from being used to manage or protect land around the refuge.
- It would bar the Secretary of the Interior from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing the February 2023 land protection plan.
- The plan the bill targets is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service document called the final Land Protection Plan and Environmental Assessment for Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.
Official Summaries
No Federal Expansion Designation in West Texas Act or the No FED in West Texas Act
This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from finalizing, implementing, administering, or enforcing its 2023 final land protection plan and environmental assessment for the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. The plan allows Interior to expand the refuge and purchase lands or acquire conservation easements on up to 700,000 acres of land in the Southern High Plains region along the Texas-New Mexico border.
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 839 Reported in House (RH)]
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Union Calendar No. 374
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 839
[Report No. 119-435]
To prohibit the implementation of a Land Protection Plan for Muleshoe
National Wildlife Refuge.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 31, 2025
Mr. Arrington introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
January 8, 2026
Additional sponsor: Mr. Hunt
January 8, 2026
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed
in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January
31, 2025]
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A BILL
To prohibit the implementation of a Land Protection Plan for Muleshoe
National Wildlife Refuge.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``No Federal Expansion Designation in
West Texas Act'' or the ``No FED in West Texas Act''.
SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF LAND PROTECTION PLAN FOR MULESHOE NATIONAL
WILDLIFE REFUGE PROHIBITED.
The Secretary of the Interior may not finalize, implement,
administer, or enforce the Land Protection Plan described in the
document published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
titled ``Final Land Protection Plan & Environmental Assessment Muleshoe
National Wildlife Refuge'' (February 2023).
Union Calendar No. 374
119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 839
[Report No. 119-435]
_______________________________________________________________________
A BILL
To prohibit the implementation of a Land Protection Plan for Muleshoe
National Wildlife Refuge.
_______________________________________________________________________
January 8, 2026
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed